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  1. Anonymous Jehovah’s Witness collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform jacket, pants, and overcoat relating to the experiences of a Jehovah's Witness imprisoned in Buchenwald and Flossenburg concentration camps in Germany before and during the Holocaust.

  2. Zyzniewski family collection

    The collection consists of a watercolor portrait, correspondence, documents, photographs, photo albums, and publications relating to the experiences of Wieslaw Zyzniewski (Wesley Zineski) and his family, Polish Catholics, originally from Łódź, before, during and after World War II, during which Wesley and his mother Janina were arrested for their political activities and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.

  3. Early 20th century Germany business equipment collection

    The collection consists of an AGFA Billy I automatic camera, a Kantorowicz liqueur bottle, a Reichspost W28 rotary phone, and a spring balance scale as examples of personal and business equipment that would have been in use in Germany in the early 20th century.

  4. Peter Dallos family collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, documents, and postcards relating to the experiences of Erno and Maria Klein Deutsch and their son Peter in Hungary during the Holocaust and to Maria and Peter after the war.

  5. William Sharp collection

    The collection consists of two artworks created by William Sharp, a political cartoonist who left Nazi Germany for the United States in 1933.

  6. Erna and Otto Stein family collection

    The Otto and Erna Stein family collection includes a German Cross of Honor for World War I Combatants, biographical materials and correspondence documenting the Stein family, their immigration to the United States in 1938, and their relatives’ experiences under Nazi rule in Neustadt an der Haardt, Nieder-Olm, Wiesbaden, and Mannheim.

  7. Klara Stempler Greif family collection

    The collection consists of booties, silverware, tablecloths, a table runner, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Klara Stempler Greif and her sons Maximilian and Ignatz, and Ignatz’s wife, Izi, before and during the Holocaust in Romania, and after the Holocaust in Romania and the United States.

  8. Oral history interviews of the Gabrielle Tyrnauer collection

    Oral history interviews with Roma and Sinti survivors of Nazi concentration camps

  9. Medizin und Pharmaziehistorisches Museum Wismar collection

    The collection consists of periodicals and medical instruments used at the Sachsenberg Psychiatric Asylum in Schwerin, Germany.

  10. Hermanowski family collection

    The collection consists of an armband, a badge, an envelope with commemorative stamps, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Wojciech Hermanowksi and his family in Poland, Germany, and Sweden during and after the Holocaust.

  11. Diana Treister collection

    The collection consists of a rubber stamp, and an employment book, or Arbeitsbuch, issued to Anton Wilda, a Polish worker of German ancestry in Katowice, Poland, during the Holocaust.

  12. Oral history interviews of the Diane Plotkin collection

    Oral history interviews conducted by Dr. Diane Plotkin for her graduate dissertation research and book Sisters in Sorrow: Voices of Care in the Holocaust.

  13. Wacław Głouszek collection

    The collection consists of scrip, correspondences, diaries, copy prints, sheet music, and publications relating to the experiences of Waclaw Glouszek during the Holocaust, when he was interened as a non-Jewish political prisoner in several concentration camps and after the Holocaust when he lived in displaced persons camps.

  14. Reinald Leidelmeyer collection

    Consists of Signal Corps images of the wartime European and Pacific theaters, of the liberation of concentration camps, and of the Nuremberg trials. Includes images of the liberation of the Braunschweig, Bergen-Belsen, Braunlage, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dortmund, Ebensee, Flossenbürg, Landsberg, Neunburg, Nordhausen, Ohrdruf, Schwabmünchen, Schwarzenfeld, Struthof, Woebbelin, and Wuelfel concentration camps and atrocity sites. Also includes a oral history interview with Dr. Reinald Leidelmeyer, who was a member of the Dutch Resistance in the Hague, recorded ca. 1994. He describes his arrest, b...

  15. William Sharp collection

    The collection consists of a series of thirty-one drawings created by William Sharp, a political cartoonist who left Nazi Germany for the United States in 1933, in the early 1930s and published in PM newspaper in October 1941. Associated with PM (New York, N.Y.) newspaper, printed between 1940 and 1948.

  16. Kathryn Lichtenberg and Walt E. Lichtenberg collection

    The collection consists of a silver baby cup, correspondence, documents, a journal, a taped interview, and a Pentateuch relating to the experiences of the Lichtenberg and Stein families during and after the Holocaust.

  17. German Sinti collection

    The collection consists of clothing articles owned by German Sinti.

  18. Alice Lok Cahana collection

    The collection consists of 2 paintings by Alice Lok Cahana.

  19. Dr. Lawrence Warick collection

    Consists of documents, motion picture playbills, and composition books from the post-war collection of Lova Warszawczyk, now Dr. Lawrence Warick. Dr. Warick lived in the Neu Freimann and Stuttgart displaced persons camps from 1946-1949, when he and his family immigrated to the United States on the General Omar Bundy. Includes identification paperwork, school composition books, filmbills of American films released in Germany, and documents regarding his immigration to the United States. Also contains one oral history audiotape of Dr Warick's memories of his wartime and post-war experiences, ...

  20. Daisy Kartch Colish collection

    The collection consists of a WW II Iron Cross 1st Class medal and a